EBSCO for Science Research

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The Intelligent Alternative
Research in Psychology
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• Debbie Houk 537-6951
• Interim Director
• Bill Harroff 537-6952
• Reference Information Technologies Librarian
• Meseret Gebremichael 537-6950
• Public Services Librarian
• Sandy Moody 537-6953
• Librarian
• LeAnn Noland
• Library Assistant

• Please visit call or email
• any of us

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This tutorial will cover the basics in using
the online resources at Holman Library

• Major Topics Covered
• EZ Search
• Database List
• Psychology Resources
• APA Style the Basics
• Tutorials

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Holman Library WebPages act as an Information
Gateway

• Menu to resources and services
• Subscriptions to over 60 electronic databases
• Mostly full text resources
• Proxy server for off campus access
• Databases available 24 / 7
• Guides to resources by division, major program
• Online forms for requesting reference help,
  interlibrary loan, instruction other services

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Off Campus Access

• Must have a McKendree username and password to
  access Library resources
• Contact 537-6445 or helpdesk_at_mckendree.edu with
  support webpages at http//support.mckendree.edu
  
• Proxy server
• Authenticates McKendree affiliation
• Compliance with licensing agreements
• Allows access from anywhere on the web

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Research Process for Locating Quality Journal
Articles

• Select a topic
• Choose a database
• EBSCO Databases
• FirstSearch Databases
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Construct a search
• Perform a search
• Broaden and/or narrow a topic
• Recognize the full text, citation options

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Searching is EZ!
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EZ Search Options
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EZ Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the articles
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Select VIEW for the most complete information
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You may still search the individual databases one
by one without using the EZ Button
Try the Database List
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Precise, definitive searches are best
accomplished within the individual database
search engines
For instance, select the EBSCO Databases for
research in psychology
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Academic Search Premier is your best source for
FT, scholarly research articles
But, you may select as many EBSCO databases as
you think appropriate
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EBSCO Database Descriptions

• Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary
  database with full text for nearly 4,650 serials,
  including full text for more than 3,600
  peer-reviewed titles along with citations and
  abstracts to another 5000 journals
• PsycINFO - Two million citations and summaries of
  journal articles, book chapters, books and
  dissertations, all in psychology and related
  disciplines, dating as far back as 1840
• PsycARTICLES - 39,000 searchable full text
  articles from over 50 journals published by the
  American Psychological Association and allied
  organizations from 1985 to the present.

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Refining the Search
Review the Appropriate Search Options i.e.
Database / Journal Title / Scholarly
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Click on the title of an article to see the
abstract, the subject headings assigned, the
bibliographic information, and links to the full
text article (when available)
Search Terms are Highlighted
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Explore Your Options

• Review the buttons on the toolbar
• Basic and Advanced Search features
• Subject terms, thesauri and indexes
• Browse for subjects that begin with or contain
  the term to be searched
• Add the term to the search screen using the ADD
  button in the browse section
• Add additional terms if desired using the boolean
  operators in the pull down menu next to the add
  button
• Search by publication (a table of contents for
  browsing a journal or finding subject specific
  articles)
• Can put articles in folders for later evaluation
  and selection

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Improve Your Search Techniques Boolean operators
and, or, not can
always be used to limit searches
And Combines search terms so that results
contain all of the search words.
i.e. schizophrenia and children
psychology and profession and women

• Or Combines search terms so that results
  contain at least one of the search words.
  i.e. adolescent or teenager
  ADD or attention deficit disorder

• Not Excludes terms that are not desired.
  i.e. book not review experiment
  not human

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You can expand search results by using Wildcards
and Truncation
Truncation represented by the asterisk (). Use
the to replace the end of a word. For
example type psyc to find citations containing
the words psychiatric, psychological,
psychology, etc.
Wildcards represented by the question mark (?).
Use the ? for unknown characters For example,
type wom?n to find citations containing woman,
women, or womyn.
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The Result List
Varieties of Full Text OptionsHTML, PDF
Linked Full Text
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Varieties of Full Text PDFs include EVERYTHING
the author intended
PDFs include all primary source charts,
graphs, tables, photographs and words
included by the writer
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Each citation or article includesPrint, Email,
Export and Save Options
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Hooray for EBSCO!!!
Stylin the EASY Way
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Email Options are Secure Easy to Use
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Looking for a Specific eJournal?
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If there is no full text link to an article,
what should I do?

• First, click on the McK button
• It will check our subscription lists
• Email Meseret Gebremichael (618)
  537-6950E-mail librarycirculation_at_mckendree.edu
  
• Request Articles
• Online forms or in-library paper forms
• Received via fax, electronically, by mail or
  courier
• Time needed varies / planning required
• Interlibrary Loan Services and Policies
• Interlibrary Loan Request Form
• Choose Borrow from another library
• Complete request form and submit
• Article will come to library and be sent to you
• Each request needs your name, contact information
  and the last date the article is useful to you

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Cite Your Sources Properly

• Let the reader know whose thoughts are being
  used to make the point and provide the
  appropriate documentation
• Avoid plagiarism
• Do not copy someone elses work. Its fraud!
• No person shall submit as his own to an
  instructor any work which contains ideas or
  materials taken from another without full
  acknowledgment of the author the source.
  McKendrees Academic Integrity Policy

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Bibliographic Style Aids
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Resources by Discipline - Psychology
Represents some of the best sources of
information from the Librarys subscription
services the Internet
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Tutorials
Tutorials are available any time and cover almost
every one of our databases